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She shoots, she scores!

February 26th, 2006 by Crumpet

Here we go with an extraordinarily image heavy post…

Today, this happened.

totally finished mariah!

That’s knitted, ends woven in, seamed, blocked and zipperified in 16 days. I get gold!

16 days of blood (well, maybe not blood), sweat (so much sweat, so much knitting in only my underwear — after my little brother had gone home anyway), tears, houseguests, stocktake, enormous work hours, uni orientation, an extra day of uni orientation, a Tegan and Sara gig and a Steinbecks gig.

Yesterday, this happened.

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Woe is me.

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

Go read Korangar.

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Woman vs Machine

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

A quick question for Jodi, if yr reading… I’ve never sewn a zipper into my knitting before — when you did so for Mariah, did you hand sew or use a machine?

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All seamed up with blocking to go…

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

i love this cardigan

I suggest staring at the lovely cardigan to avoid the horrors of my paleness and eye-bags.

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I can smell both victory and failure.

February 25th, 2006 by Crumpet

knitting done

I know the photo’s a bit out of focus, but that happens when you knit for hours at a time. Thank bob the knitting part is done, because my wrists and hands are close to giving out. Today I need to seam and block, then tomorrow I sew in the zipper. A little birdy told me that I might have some surprise busy-ness today, so this could still go either way…

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New baby needs a name.

February 21st, 2006 by Crumpet

new wheel, full shot

new wheel, ashford shot

I caught the train to Ballarat yesterday to look at a couple of wheels that my parents had seen advertised second hand, and came home with this lovely — it’s my birthday gift from mum and dad. :D

Now I need a name. I’ve been considering the following…

River (because she was totally kicking my butt earlier)
Vera (because she’s my very favourite wheel — except I already named my very favourite knife this…)
Kendra (because she’s me favourite wheel… she’s me only wheel!)
Jayne (because it’s a birthday gift, and Adam Baldwin shares the birthday with me)

Suggestions are welcome.